Vanity box



LE ROY ROOT July 5, 1955 VANITY BOX Filed May 20, 1953 L 0 R03 RootORNEY United States Patent Ofiice 2,712,318 Patented July 5, 1955 VANITYBOX Le Roy Root, Stamford, Conn, assignor to Scovill ManufacturingCompany, Waterbury, Comm, a corporation of Connecticut Application May29, 1953, Serial No. 356,279 1 Claim. (Cl. l3283) Heretofore when vanityboxes were made to receive a compacted powder holder or pan it wascustomary to cracking the powder cake in the pan or otherwise marringthe box.

For this purpose a partition or holder frame is hinged to the body ofthe vanity box and the powder pan assembled to the under side of theframe after which the frame is hinged back into the box body.Furthermore, by this construction the frame can be made so that aportion of its face wall overlies the upper edge of the powder pan aswell as the adjacent portion of the powder cake so as to eliminate anyspace or unsightly cracks around the pan.

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. l is a perspective view of the vanity box embodying the inventionshowing the cover in open position.

fits around the front edge of the body. The lower legs 17 of the claspmay be hinged to the base 13 of the body in any suitable manner whilethe end of the opposite leg 13 terminates in a rolled bead 19 forconvenience in manipulating the clasp. For opening the box the clasp 16may be swung to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 3.

between the hinge barrels 27 inwardly to serve as a spring lug 28 thatbears against the wall 23 of the pan 21 adjaedge of said pan wall aswell as a slight portion of the powder cake as best shown in Fig. 3.

From this construction it will be obvious that the the nib 31 when theframe is hinged to closed position.

bile the box illustrated is square in shape it is to be understood thatthe invention can just as well be embodied of a top surface wall withdepending edge flanges arranged filled with compacted powder and havingtangential engagement with three of the flanges of said frame when e panis telescopically assembled from the undersiue of said frame, the fourthof said flanges having a pair of spaced lugs sheared outwardly thereofand formed into hinge barrels for hingedly connect ng said frame to thecommon hinge of said body and cover members, that portion of said flangebetween said hinging barrels being biased inwardly to provide aresilient holding means for said powder pan, and the top surface wall ofsaid frame 0 the powder in said the compact powder aps the edge of theUNITED STATES PATENTS Hyde July 3, 1923 Kendall Aug. 19, 1930 PerkinAug. 30, 1932 FOREIGN PATENTS Oct. 20, 1930 France

